Why sacking the manager does little to boost results in long term

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Beckham and the other Galácticos in Madrid during Pérez’s tenure were only as good as their weakest linkMike Egerton/PA

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Reading’s decision to bring in Nigel Adkins as manager in March failed to improve their resultsAndrew Couldridge/Action Images

Last updated at 12:01AM, May 14 2013

In the second part of our serialisation from The Numbers Game, we analyse the effects of managerial change

It is that time of year — when clubs start to think about sacking managers and
agents hawk multimillion-pound superstars around Europe, desperately hoping
to tempt one of the Continent’s giants into parting with vast sums of money
to secure one of the world’s finest players.

But does any of it make any difference? That is the question at the heart of
our second exclusive extract from The Numbers Game, the revolutionary
book that aims to establish whether the way things have always been done in
football is the way they should be done.